Mario Gotze has confirmed he will leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season, amid transfer speculation linking him to Liverpool.
The German World Cup winner’s current deal expires at the end of the current campaign and he has announced his intention to move on a free transfer.
Gotze, who scored the winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final, has switched to top agent Reza Fazeli from International Soccer Management (ISM), who have been tasked with finding him a new club in the summer.
Gotze said: ‘First of all, I hope according to the circumstances that you and your loved ones are doing well in the present situation.
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‘Today I would like to announce that after intensive consideration, I have decided to make a change in the planning of my career. I have consciously taken my time over this step.
‘It is an important decision for my sporting future and I am very much looking forward to working with Reza Fazeli and his agency International Soccer Management (ISM), whose professional competence has absolutely convinced me.
‘What the sporting future will bring will only become apparent when a little normality has returned to the world.
‘Until then, please stay healthy and support society as much as you can.’
He has been linked with both Liverpool and AC Milan and teased a reunion with former mentor Jurgen Klopp in the January transfer window.
‘I’m still in touch with Jurgen,’ Gotze told DAZN. ‘At that time, I was just 17 and coming up from the youth team.
‘He taught me everything about professional football. He let me play. I often speak to Klopp. We never stopped talking.
‘He knows me very well and that I am always looking for new challenges.’
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